Cost Effectiveness of Routine Screening for Gonorrhea and Chlamydia When Obtaining Pap Smears in Urban Adolescents

Autor: Fanburg, Jonathan, Ling, Judith, Abraham, Anisha, Arce, Elda
Zdroj: Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology; November 1998, Vol. 11 Issue: 4 p204-204, 1p
Abstrakt: BackgroundMost adolescent females are tested for gonorrhea and chlamydia during any pelvic exam. We hypothesized that empirically obtaining these tests at time of routine Pap Smear is not cost effective because the prevalence of gonorrhea and chlamydia in the subset population is low.
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